Hostgroup Authorization Change

[Jason Lancaster]

About 1 hour prior to your message, I realized this behavior and was rather
annoyed by it. I'd love to have you change this.

Seems like you were reading my mind of things to do today. Thanks!

-Jason
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ethan Galstad" <nagios at nagios.org>
To: <nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 0:28
Subject: [Nagios-devel] Hostgroup Authorization Change


> I'm planning on making a small but significant change in the way
> authorization for hostgroup access is done in the CGIs.  Here's the
> plan...
>
> Current State:
>
> If a user has rights to view at least one host (but not all)
> in a particular hostgroup, they are able to see the hostgroup in the
> CGIs.  However, the hosts that the are listed in the hostgroup are
> only the ones they have access to.  I don't think its desirable to
> show a "clipped" version of a hostgroup like this, as its a bit
> deceiving.
>
>
> Proposed Change:
>
> In order to view a specific hostgroup (or commit commands for a it)
> user would have to have rights to view *all* hosts in that hostgroup.
>
>
> Comments?  If I don't here anything back soon, I'll be making this
> change.  I don't think there should be a big problem with it, but it
> is a very visible change that will be taking place.
>
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
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